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  • Bijective BWT (2 Comments)

    David Scott has written a bijective BWT transform, which brings all the advantages of bijectiveness to BWT based compressors. Among other things, making BWT more suitable for compression-before-encryption and also give (slightly) better compression.

  • Asymmetric Binary System (107 Comments)

    Jarek Duda’s “Asymmetric Binary System” promises to be an alternate to arithmetic coding, having all the advantages, but being much simpler. Matt has coded a PAQ based compressor using ABS for back-end encoding. Update: Andrew Polar has written an alternate implementation of ABS.

  • Precomp: More Compression for your Compressed Files

    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them. Christian Schneider’s Precomp comes to rescue by undoing the harm.

  • On2 Technologies is Hiring

    There aren’t too many companies working on cutting edge codecs, and of those few this one is hiring. Best of luck.

  • China’s AVS Specifications Available (2 Comments)

    Its old news that China has developed their own Advanced Video Standard to avoid high licensing fees. English translation of the standard is now available, along with the IPR policy. Finally something technical that you can get your hands on to feed your appetite.

The Data Compression Newsletter - September 2006

Posted by Sachin Garg on 14th September 2006 | Permanent Link

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A monthly roundup of all news and happenings reported at The Data Compression News Blog. More information about this newsletter at http://www.c10n.info/newsletter/

I have further refined the recently added a section which keeps track of all industry news and press releases using Google’s excellent News service. Check it out at http://www.c10n.info/newsbot or on the homepage.

Another section added is the “Benchmark updates” section on homepage, it will make it easy for you to track any updates made to the popular compression benchmarks. Right now it only has updates from maximumcompression.com, more benchmarks will be added soon.

Among other things which I would love to see at www.c10n.info is a section featuring the latest research papers published on topics of our interest. And one featuring the latest data compression patents granted or filed. I have explored further on how the patents section can be built, you will be seeing it soon.

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Here is news from last month and in this month till now, enjoy…

MatrixView Launches SQZit, Same Mistakes Repeated
2006-09-05 By Sachin Garg (2 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/443

Anther offering by MatrixView. As always, only claims, no hard facts. Blames former employees for undermining the company image.

TiVo Ruling Suggests Shift in Patent Cases
2006-09-01 By Sachin Garg (0 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/442

LAW.COM: The fierce court battle between digital video recorder pioneer TiVo Inc. and cable television giant EchoStar Communications Corp. has been shunted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which may signal the increasing role of that office. If the trend catches on, it could delay outcomes of patent disputes by years.

IPOs and Investments: DivX, Smith Micro, On2, InterVideo
2006-08-30 By Sachin Garg (0 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/441

Last few days were very hot and happening with a lot of money talk done by some prominent companies. These are good times for companies in data compression :-)

What’s up with the JPEG patent company Forgent
2006-08-26 By Sachin Garg (2 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/440

They may soon get delisted from Nasdaq as their stock’s bid price is way below the minimum $1.00 per share requirement, but it still might be too soon to completely write them off. They have not yet given up on Jpeg patent and they are actively pursuing other interesting patents too.

Another ‘Magic’ Compression Patent: Claims 1.28GB on a Floppy
2006-08-26 By Sachin Garg (11 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/439

Another compression patent granted that promises a “floppy disk that can store 1.28 GigaBytes of data”. I couldn’t understand a word of what it says, but still fun to read :-)

An “Frequency-Time Based Data Compression Method” supporting the compression, encryption, decompression, and decryption and persistence of many binary digits through frequencies where each frequency represents many bits.

Is Compression the Solution for Bloated XML in SOA? No
2006-08-20 By Sachin Garg (3 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/438

XML compression can be really great to “patch-up” the inefficiencies faced by SOA applications in handling large XML payloads, and fortunately there are solutions available. But nothing beats good design which can eliminate the problem at source.

Apple Granted Patent for Image Deblocking Algorithm
2006-08-16 By Sachin Garg (0 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/437

Patent no. 7,092,580 is for a improving image quality after decompression by removing lingering compression artifacts.

UPX, the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables, version 2.02 released
2006-08-14 By Sachin Garg (1 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/435

Latest version of UPX, the versatile executable packer, was released a few days ago. Looks like a bug-fix release.

Version 0.9.6 of the IIPImage Server Released
2006-08-09 By Sachin Garg (3 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/433

IIPimage Windows installer for server version 0.9.6 was released, its a client/server system which lets you view very high resolution large images on slow connections, using multi-resolution tiled TIFF images.

The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge Update
2006-08-05 By Sachin Garg (5 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/432

Alexander Ratushnyak updates his December 2005 entry to Calgary corpus compression challenge. Matt Mahoney provides a summary of the PAQAR based compressor.

Dream Data Compression Job
2006-08-01 By Sachin Garg (9 comments)
http://www.c10n.info/archives/431

Want work doing research on data compression algorithms? The StuffIt guys are hiring.

Thatz all for this month, to submit news, post comments or to keep track of news as it happens, visit http://www.c10n.info

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